LOOK!!!! It's SPRING!!!!

[Skierchickie]

Sandra - hmmmm...... nope! Mississippi is hot & muggy - I'd melt! I have a rare condition called the Wicked Witch of the North Syndrome. Makes me crabby & sweaty in Mississippi. You could visit, though! It is a nice picture, by the way - very pretty, but very deceptively HOT! 70 is my max, and that is if it isn't too humid.

When you come up here, this would be the time of year. The sun is shining (not so much in January) and it's 35 right now, although it's supposed to drop through the teens tomorrow and be in the 20s most of the week.

I know this is blasphemy on TE, but I don't wanna ride in the winter! Skiing is my thing (for the last -erg - 33 years! Since I was 9.). Biking must wait another month or so.

Enjoy your flowers & unbearable heat!

[Meg McKilty]

I have no plants near me to show off with pictars!

[Geonz]

It melted today and the crocuses have been DOING THINGS under the snow GERMINATION! GERMINATION!

Saw many the turdus migratorius today, too.

[Beane]

Sandra, you really should duck when you post something like this.

I agree!

We got up to 47 today and it was heavenly! I actually walked around the dog park without gloves on!

.. but tonight we're getting rain/ice/snow and the cold air returns

[sandra]

High today here: close to 80.

[emily_in_nc]

Skierchickie,

Your home, view, and snow are absolutely beautiful! Even though I am a cold-weather wimp, I love the beauty of snow and only rarely get to experience it. Adore log homes too! Gawgeous!

Emily

[uforgot]

Yesterday 74. Today 28. Snow and sleet. Guess yesterday was just a teaser.

[Possegal]

Sandra - hmmmm...... nope! Mississippi is hot & muggy - I'd melt! I have a rare condition called the Wicked Witch of the North Syndrome. Makes me crabby & sweaty in Mississippi.

I moved to Mississippi from PA for 5 yrs during school, I swear to whoever, parts of my car melted there. probably parts of me too. And I never quite got back my cold weather tolerance when I came back north.

But it was always a lot of fun to call the family and tell them I was wearing shorts in February. Not that we didn't have cold and snow (it was northern MS after all), but nothing like PA.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

It sure is. On the Maryland side of D.C., my tulip has (yes, I have only one) barely poked it's head above the ground. However, I can hear the deer getting excited from here. The daffodils are farthur along, but nowhere close to MimiTabby's. I was in Portland OR last week, and the crocuses (croci?) were up and blooming and the daffodil bulbs were filling up, ready to pop.

Nuthin' is pokin' nuthin' up through the ground over here.

[SheFly]

No kidding, Lisa. Spring is still a ways off for some of us, and it's hard for anything to poke through this:

[Meg McKilty]

Hey SheFly, do you like living in snow like that? I would love to live in wintry weather and shovel snow looking like your pictures!

[SheFly]

Early winter - yes. Early spring (almost) - no .

This is actually my vacation house, so I kind of get the best of both worlds. Still have to shovel though, so anytime you want to come and help, let me know . Oh, and it snowed another foot the day after I took these photos.

The town has had about 140" of snow this winter. My neighbors had come from shoveling their roof a 4th time last weekend . Locals are just as sick of it, and there really is nowhere left to put any of it. The fear now is flooding...

SheFly

[7rider]

The town has had about 140" of snow this winter. My neighbors had come from shoveling their roof a 4th time last weekend . Locals are just as sick of it, and there really is nowhere left to put any of it. The fear now is flooding...

I used to live in Ipswich, work in Gloucester. My old boss, who lives in Newbury (I think....where's Gov. Dummer Academy?) says he hasn't seen his front lawn since Thanksgiving!! Looks like the winters of '94-95 again.

[firenze11]

I saw my first sign of spring today! A groundhog! I looked out my window and there he was, running around the yard and then digging into some exposed dirt near a tree. If the groundhogs are coming out of hibernation, I can, too (soon).

I was also quite warm yesterday and rained so some of the snow melted. But then it froze. It made me pretty annoyed trying to open the barn door today. I relieved my anger on the ice with a pick, though.

[northstar]

Most certainly not spring here.

http://weather.wcco.com/US/MN/Minneapolis.html

High of 15 tomorrow. 9 is possible on Friday.

It's wild to me that folks in Canada can see crocuses right now. But I guess a coast nearby will do wonders...